Two types of big round balers and a small stackmaker were used to harvest grain sorghum stubble after the grain was harvested during the fall and winter months of 1975. The stubble was about 21 inches high and about 4 ...

One-hundred eighteen heifers were used to determine the effectiveness of Alfaprostol as a heat synchronization agent. Seventy-nine were injected twice (12 days apart) with 6 mg Alfaprostol per head and 39 were not treated. ...

Reproductive failure is consistently a top reason for culling beef cows from the herd.
Culling young females is very costly to commercial producers because a young female
hasn’t generated enough income to pay for the ...

Two aims of heifer estrus synchronization protocols are to induce prepubertal heifers
to start cycling by the beginning of the breeding season and to shorten time spent in estrous detection. Use of progestins such as ...

Feed is one of the largest costs in a cow/calf or feedlot operation. However, very little data is available to aid producers in genetically improving their herd for feed efficiency. In Australia, bull tests record individual ...

Performance data from a Polled Hereford
herd selected for feed conversion were used
in the calculation of heritabilities and genetic
correlations for birth weight (BWT), weaning
weight (WWT), and yearling weight ...

Performance data from a Polled Hereford
herd selected for feed conversion were used
in the calculation of heritabilities and genetic
correlations for birth weight (BWT), weaning
weight (WWT), and yearling weight ...

Heritabilities and genetic correlations for
ultrasound-measured ribeye area and fat thickness,
as well as growth traits and scrotal circumference,
were determined using performance
records of 1613 Brangus calves ...

Data was collected on 91 lambs of known breeding born during the fall, 1963. The lambs were from ewes in the original fine-wool flock and were sired by 10 performance-tested Hampshire rams. This was the ewes fifth lamb crop.

Data were collected on 94 lambs of known breeding born the fall of 1962. The lams were from ewes in the original fine-wool flock sired by eight unrelated Suffolk yearling rams. This was the ewes fourth lam crop.

This is a continuous project to the North-Central-50 Regional Sheep Breeding Project. The Kansas State Project was initiated to determine relationships between various carcass measurements and live animal traits, to estimate ...

This is a contributing project to the North Central-50 Regional Sheep Breeding Project. The Kansas State project was initiated in the spring of 1959 to determine relationships between various carcass measurements and live ...

The objective of this study was to estimate
heritabilities and genetic correlations for Warner- Bratzler shear force and marbling score of longissimus steaks from Angus-, Charolais-, Hereford-, and Simmental-sired cattle ...

Heterosis estimates were determined for gestation length, birth weight, and
yearling weight using a two-breed rotational crossbreeding system with Angus and
Simmental cattle. Heterosis for gestation length was -.3%; birth ...

To determine the effects of storage in a
high-carbon dioxide, modified-atmosphere
package (MAP) on shelf life, beef strip steaks
were packaged under 30% CO2-70% N2 and
stored for up to 42 days at 30 or 38 ̊F. ...

Dry rolled corn, ensiled high moisture corn, and high moisture corn that was rolled and ensiled with urea or left whole and ensiled with urea were compared in two cattle trials. Dry corn gave the poorest cattle performance; ...

W used 135 yearling steers in two trials to compare dry with high moisture (HM) corn and soybean meal (SBM) supplement with urea supplement. Results of trail 1 (88 days) show HM corn either rolled or ensiled in a stave ...